About the day » Wednesday May 4, 1966Calender converter

• Johannes Hermanus Louvet, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2017)
• Cees de Bruijn, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• gerardus h.m. (geert) slaats, meijel
• Kind van der Meulen, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Monique Fokker, Nijmegen (GD) Nederland († 2014)
• Bianca Blok
• Astrid Segers, Baarle-Nassau,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1969)
• NN van Houten
• Anja Oosterbroek, Dieren, 6951, Nederland († 2021)
• Raimond Schmaal, ......... († 2001)

• Bastiana Helena van Aken (68), Den Haag ('s-Gravenhage), Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus de la Mar (57), Veenendaal
• Bernardus Lebuinus Maria van DER LANDE (68), Versailles,,F
• Cornelia Spies (56), Driebergen, Nederland
• Derkina Zwart (60), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Eendebak (81)
• Adrianus van Halteren (75), Tilburg
• Celina Paulina d'Haene (79), , Terneuzen, Sluiskil, Nederland
• Carolus Leonard Anton Maria Schretlen (81), Nijmegen,Gemeente Nijmegen,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Anna Tuinder (82), Oudeschild

• 1964 » Silvia Costa, Cuban high jumper
• 1966 » Gary Elkins, English footballer and manager
• 1966 » Jane McGrath, English-Australian activist, co-founded the McGrath Foundation († 2008)
• 1967 » Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer
• 1967 » Kate Garraway, English journalist
• 1969 » Franz Resch, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 » Giovanni Mirabassi, Italian jazz musician
• 1970 » Gregg Alexander, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Will Arnett, Canadian actor and producer

• 1953 » Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
• 1955 » George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1975 » Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886)
• 1980 » Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1981 » C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Paul
10. Ronald
11. Marcel
12. Willem
13. Johan
14. Jacob
15. David
16. Richard

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Anna
5. Petra
6. Ingrid
7. Jolanda
8. Elisabeth
9. Yvonne
10. Cornelia
11. Petronella
12. Anita
13. Jacqueline
14. Catharina
15. Sandra
16. Karin

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
• January 12 » Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• March 19 » 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team wins the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
• April 21 » Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
• June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
• July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
• October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.

The temperature on May 4, 1966 was between 10.3 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.